Abstract
Water-air-bubble mixed flow is a complex multiphase flow usually generated due to the intense interaction between the sailing ship and the free surface[1]. A large number of bubbles scour down along the ship which gather around the propulsion system, making a significant effect on the hydrodynamic performance of propeller and hydrofoil. In this paper, the hydrodynamic performance of two-dimensional hydrofoil and three-dimensional propeller in uniformly mixed water-air-bubble incoming flow is studied by using the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method. Euler-Euler two-fluid model is used to simulate the uniformly mixed water-air-bubble incoming flow with the open-source CFD software OpenFOAM. The feasibility of numerical simulation is verified by comparing the numerical simulation results with experimental data. On this basis, the changes of physical fields around two-dimensional hydrofoil and three-dimensional propeller caused by water-air-bubble flow under multiple air fraction conditions are discussed. In addition, the differences in dimensionless coefficients are compared between single-phase flow conditions and two-phase flow. Furthermore, the Population Balance Model (PBM) is used in the simulation of two-dimensional hydrofoil to observe the coalescence and break of bubbles.
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